Golang Overview

GO is created by google ,used for different tasks such as web development.

Golang has the following main features:

• suitable for developing service applications
• suitable for developing efficient and large scale programs
• suitable for modern computing environments such as cloud
• open-source
• GoLang has simple structure and syntax
• GO uses functions called goroutines which are like threads but are lightweight in terms of memory.

Some of the companies using GoLang

• Google
• YouTube
• Apple
• Dropbox

You can download it from the following link:
https://golang.org/

Once you open the above link you can select the option to download go:

In Go you issue commands as go “verb” for example:

go get

Folder is structured using the main workspace folder.

workspace folder consists of src folder and bin folder (executable)

In this example we are declaring a package called main which includes a function called main.It is important to note that function should be called main and package name should also be main.

The main function is automatically executed.

We are also importing a package called fmt.The fmt  package provides I/O functions.

package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}

 

 

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